Popular Culture

Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola

Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century

Air Ball: American Education's Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics

Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen

Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature

American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song

Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons

Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip: Centennial Reflections on an American Art Form

Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium

The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History

The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History

Art Spiegelman: Conversations

Batboys and the World of Baseball

The Beatles: Image and the Media

Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans

Born in the U.S.A.: The Myth of American Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present

A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music

Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity

Carl Barks: Conversations

Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl

Charles M. Schulz: Conversations

Chuck Jones: Conversations

Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers

Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Johnson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar

Comics as Culture

Comics as Philosophy

A Comics Studies Reader

The Comics

Cool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustom Kulture

The Courting of Marcus Dupree

Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s

Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun

Elvis and Gladys

The Enchanted Quest of Dana and Ginger Lamb

Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer

Faulkner and Popular Culture

Film and Comic Books

Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell

Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire

Ghost Hunters of the South

Global Pop, Local Language

Hank Williams, So Lonesome

Harvey Pekar: Conversations

A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign

Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs

History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels

Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear

Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious

Interviews with Dwight MacDonald

Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O'Neill

Ladies First: Women in Music Videos

The Land of the Smokies: Great Mountain Memories

The Language of Comics: Word and Image

The Life of Dick Haymes: No More Little White Lies

Living Life inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation

Li'l Abner: A Study in American Satire

Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture

The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors

Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture

Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods

Milton Caniff: Conversations

Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records

Muffler Men

Mystery Fiction and Modern Life

New York Voices: Fourteen Portraits

Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895

Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s

Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: The Paintings of John Baeder

Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle

Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art

R. Crumb: Conversations

Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field

Real Football: Conversations on America's Game

Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947

Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips

Shaping Our Mothers' World: American Women's Magazines

Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change

Sports: The All-American Addiction

Star Trek Fans and Costume Art

Step Right Up

Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology

The System of Comics

TABASCO®: An Illustrated History

Tallulah: My Autobiography

Van Johnson: MGM's Golden Boy

¡Viva la historieta!: Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

Walt Disney: Conversations

Whose Improv Is It Anyway? Beyond Second City

With Signs Following: Photographs from the Southern Religious Roadside

Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life

Woody Allen: Interviews

Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System

Working with Walt: Interviews with Disney Artists

Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad

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UPM Fall BOOKFRIENDS Party Announced

On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. To mark the occasion UPM is featuring a new, limited edition of the quintessential Morris essay, My Two

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